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YouTube link. The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore is a 2011 animated short film... Described as an "allegory about the curative powers of story," the film centers around bibliophile Lessmore and his custodianship of a magical library of flying books. Show More Summary

William Joyce may be an Oscar-winning filmmaker, but he always puts books first.
After winning the 2012 Academy Award for “Best Short Film” with The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, Joyce published that story as a picture book and an app. Show More Summary

Earlier this year we featured the entire Oscar winning animated short film (The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore) and, despite my love for Pixar and their film La Luna, it was easy to see why it won the Oscar. It's the same...Show More Summary

Not many of the fantastic crop of Oscar-nominated short films are available online, but animated winner “The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore” is and it is a must-watch! Another round of The Very Best and Worst of Movie Science. Can they not pay to have a consultant on these things? Likely the [...]

For your weekend reading pleasure, here are our top stories of the week, including tributes to the great Jan Berenstain, Professor Snape‘s massively popular Academy Award tweet and The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore Oscar...Show More Summary

This week, the book world has been rejoicing at a nod received from the movie industry: the Oscar in the hotly anticipated category of Best Animated Short went to “The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore.” William Joyce and...Show More Summary

At last Sunday night’s Academy Awards ceremony, a startup studio that makes animations, apps, and ebooks won the Best Animated Short Oscar for its film “The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore.” The 14-minute movie was the first from …

Books and the curative powers of storytelling are celebrated in the moving animated short from Moonbot Studios which won the Oscar this year. Open Culture adds: The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore offers a modern tribute to an...

When a Pixar film is nominated for an Oscar, chances are it’s going to win. For proof, look at the Best Animated Feature category. In the 11 years since the Academy started handing out the award, a Pixar film has been nominated eight times. And out of those eight, it’s only lost twice. In fact, [...]

What does it take to win an Academy Award for Best Animated Short? Find out here, as one of the surprise wins last night was The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore in that very category. It features no dialogue, but does use a variety of animation techniques, including stop-motion, miniatures, 2D animation and CGI. Show More Summary

And the winner of the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film is... William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg's The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore (2011), a whimsical tale of a bookworm transported by a tornado - like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz - into a world where books are living creatures. Show More Summary